Inside Trade

February 14, 2025

Democrats: Trump foreign aid freeze a gift to China, dent in U.S. influence

By Brett Fortnam  / January 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday used a hearing on Chinese global influence on to decry President Trump’s foreign aid freeze, arguing that it opens the door for China to fill a void left by the U.S. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order mandating a 90-day pause in foreign development assistance “for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistencies with United States foreign policy.” The order claims that the U.S. “foreign aid industry...

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